Display-holder.



M. C. FRENCH.

DISPLAY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 0Ec.23. 191s.

Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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@Hoxucqs MORGAN C. FRENCH, 0F DENVER, COLORADO.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. ltd, Mild.

Application filed December 23, 1916. Serial No. 138.556.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MoRoAN C. FnnNoH, a citizen or the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Display-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a display holder and more particularly to a holder designed to hold a bill of fare or other similar article.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a resilient wire holder that can be quickly and readily attached and detached from a counter, table top or other suitable support.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holder formed from a single strand of spring wire and which embodies a pair of coils that are adapted to be supported by resilient spring arms formed integral with the outer remote sides of the coils, the inner opposed sides of the coils supporting a substantially U-shaped resilient loop that is designed to be sprung downwardly by pressure upon the coils into engagement with a projection attached to one side edge of the table top, the expansive force of the spring wire holder serving to hold and retain the device in position upon the edge of the table support.

A further object of the invention is to construct the wire coils in such a manner as to firmly hold and retain a card or other similar article between the convolutions of said coils.

A still further object of the invention is to connect the resilient supporting loops with the outer remote sides of the coils by an angular horizontally disposed wire portion which serves to limit the insertion of the bill of fare or other article between coils.

A still further object of the invention is to construct the lower end of the spring attaching loop in such a manner that it will snap into engagement over the projection carried by the table top edge so as to securely hold the device in position against accidental displacement.

With these and other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the appended claims.

. deterring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved wire holder shown attached to the edge of a counter with a bill of fare arranged therein.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device attached to the edge of a counter for a suitable support.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder shown attached to the edge of a counter.

Fi 4: is a fragmentary detail elevation of another way in which the spring loop may be constructed. 7

Similar characters of reference are used to denote like parts throughout the accompanying drawings and the following de scription.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, it is to be noted that my improved holder is designed to be attached to a counter table top or any other suitable support 1 which has attached to its edge, a screw, nail, or other suitable projection 2.

The holder is designed to be constructed of a single strand of resilient spring wire, and is bentintermediate its ends to provide a substantially U-shaped engagingloop 3 that is designed to engage over the projection 2. From the upper ends of this loop 3, the wire is bowed upwardly in substantially vertical alinement with the sides of the loop 3 to provide resilient bowed arms 4: that are bowed oppositely to each other and disposed in the same vertical plane.

From the upper ends of these bowed arms r the wire is coiled substantially one and a half times to provide outer and inner convolutions 5 and 6 respectively, these coils being disposed in opposed horizontal relation and in the same vertical plane.

The terminal endof each of the convolutions 6 of the coils is bent at right angles and bowed outwardly and inwardly of the support as indicated by the numeral 7, this bowed portion being disposed in a horizon tal plane. From this horizontally disposed in bowed portion 7, the wire is continued inwardly, downwardly and outwardly upon the support 1 to provide a resilient spring supporting loop 8.

V The ends of the supporting loopsS terminate in downwardly extending and vertically disposed ends 9 that are designed to bear against the vertical side edge of the support or counter top 1.

When itis desired to attach the holder to the counter top, the spring supporting loops 8 are positioned upon the top surface of the counterso that the vertically disposed terminal ends 9 will bear against the vertical side edge of the counter, after which pressure is brought to bear upon the coils sufficiently to move the loop 3 down into engagement over the projection 2, the device automatically holding itself in position upon the edge of the counter through the medium of the expansive force of the spring wire holder upon the releasing of the pressure that was brought to bear upon the coils in attaching the device.

If it should be desired, the U-shaped loop 3 may be made as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, with the upper end portions of the loop extended inwardly toward each other so as to provide a restricted passage 10, through which the projection 2 is designed to be sprung into position within the loop 3. By making this loop of this construction so as to have a substantially snap action over the projection 2, it will be apparent that when the device has once been attached to the counter edge it will be impossible for it to become accidentally disengaged therefrom.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a support'having a projection, of a holder of the class described formed from a single strand of resilient wire and comprising a pair of oppositely dlsposed coils arranged 1n the same vertical plane, resilient supporting arms for said coils, and an attaching loop supported by said coils intermediate said resilient supporting'arms and adapted to engage said projection;

52. The combination with a table top or other suitable support having a projection at one edge thereof, of a card holder formed from a smgle strand of wire and embodymg means for supporting a card, resilient spring means for supporting the outer remote sides of said card supporting means,

jection at one edge thereof, of a resilient holder of the class described comprisinga pair of oppositely disposed coils, resilientspring arms for supporting the outer remote sides of said coils and adapted to engage and rest upon the edge of the said support and an attaching loop carried by the inner opposed sides of said coils and adapted to be sprung downwardly into engagement with'the said projection, the expansible force of said holder serving to hold and retain the holder in position upon the edge of the support. i. The combination with a table top or other support having a projection at one edge thereof, of a card holder formed from a single strand of spring wire and embodying a pair of spaced horizontally disposed coils arranged in the samevertical plane, the terminal ends of said coils being bent at right angles, said extensions terminating in right angular vertically disposed spring supporting loops which extend inwardly, downwardly and outwardly on the said support, and terminate in vertically disposed ends adapted to engage against the edge of said support, and'a U-shaped spring loop supported by and disposed intermediate said coils and adapted to be sprung downwardly into engagement with said projection by pressure upon said coils to hold and retain the holder in position upon the edge of the said support.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MORGAN C. FRENCH.

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